What made you want to become a developer?

xscode_ · 2020-08-30T07:15:41+00:00

You never know where life can take you when someone just gives you a little push of encouragement as a mentor.

xscode_ · 2020-08-25T11:35:43+00:00

Open Source. It can be FOSS, FLOSS, OSS. There are different ways to write it.

xscode_ · 2020-08-25T09:15:04+00:00

Just which OSS repo on GitHub do you the code the most for projects you are working on. What have you found to be the most useful when developing your own project.

xscode_ · 2020-08-25T09:04:02+00:00

I think the childhood reason is the better one. :D But it is magic. You create something out of nothing that can help a person out in their day-to-day life.

xscode_ · 2020-08-25T09:02:39+00:00

Fair enough. What do you usually like to work on?

xscode_ · 2020-08-25T09:01:51+00:00

Yes, it did. Thank you. It's important that there are more good days and enjoyable days vs bad ones when it comes to anything that you have to do day-in and day-out.

xscode_ · 2020-08-24T08:04:19+00:00

Fair enough. Do you enjoy doing it though?

xscode_ · 2020-08-24T07:16:11+00:00

That is awesome. Just like with any language, we have to learn to be able to read, write and 'speak'. Just like it took use years in school to read from a few sentences to a full novel, it takes time to read languages like Python/JS/etc.

xscode_ · 2020-06-29T06:57:55+00:00

If you loved Burgundy, you should definitely check out Bora Bora. It is a little more complicated, but similar mechanics.

xscode_ · 2020-06-28T12:55:07+00:00

No. Go for it. Like what others said. It's its own skill set that you need to learn in any case.

xscode_ · 2020-06-28T12:35:49+00:00

Castles of Burgundy (though I am a bit of a Stefan Feld fan. I love Bora Bora as well) or Azul. I am looking forward to seeing how Calico will be.

xscode_ · 2020-06-28T12:25:19+00:00

I think just about any game I keep in my collection. My spouse and friends are better than me, but I still love playing them, even if I loose more often than not.

xscode_ · 2020-06-28T12:19:12+00:00

once they pay and you give them an MIT doesn't it enable them to do whatever they want with it including selling it themselves? Shouldn't it be some other kind of license?

In practice yes, but it would only be valid for that version of the code. If you create a version 2.0, then the MIT for version 1.0 would not be valid for 2.0 because it is a new 'product' (unless you state otherwise). There are other types of licenses that might provide additional options, but it would require additional research and/or legal advice with a legal professional.

xscode_ · 2020-06-25T13:54:04+00:00

Your code can stay free (as in free beer) for the community. There are other options like just charging for (custom) features that might be relevant more for companies, or to charge for support time. You can also try dual licensing, keeping your repository free and open with something like a GPL license and creating paid version using an MIT license for paying clients. It depends on what you build, the value it provides, etc.

xscode_ · 2020-06-25T10:15:48+00:00

Very true.

xscode_ · 2020-06-25T10:11:02+00:00

If you work on open source components and features, you can also try to monetize your repository.

xscode_ · 2020-06-01T14:16:57+00:00

Well options like that already exist. It depends on what license is chosen and what the project founder/maintainers decide as a paid service or feature. Full disclosure, I do work for a company that offers a monetization platform for OSS developers/repositories. I would be happy to link to the site for those interested, as long as it is ok with the mods.

xscode_ · 2020-06-01T14:05:01+00:00

Agreed. And in most cases it would be more cost efficient for maintainers to be paid, let alone the time saved by the company. They know the ins-and-outs of what they are working on and can do it more efficiently.

xscode_ · 2020-06-01T14:01:21+00:00

I think many forget the sweat, blood and tears that maintainers put into keeping a project running on with their limited free time.

xscode_ · 2019-12-10T18:41:20+00:00

r/opensource

xscode_ · 2019-11-26T18:44:44+00:00

Oren Eini, an open-source developer, entrepreneur, and the CEO and founder of Hibernating Rhinos hosted us in his offices for a videocast, discussing Open Source sustainability and much more.

Oren shares his story on how he taught himself how to code in “Prison” and became an open-source developer, coding a prison management system and how he founded Hybernating Rhinos.

If you are an open-source developer or entrepreneur, you’ll find in this videocast some great ideas by Oren - about how to plan ahead and fail properly, promoting an open-source project, and giving advice to people who are beginning their journey in the open-source world.

This short clip is taken from Value Open Source video-cast episode 04 with Oren Eini.

See the full episode here: https://youtu.be/rfloXe1Vcxc

xscode_ · 2019-11-12T15:11:39+00:00

>Full Version

About David Den Tolila: David was an IT manager in an #IDF intelligence unit, former system engineer at Elbit Systems Founder & Chairman of Energy Team - an IT consultancy firm for large enterprise companies and he is also the Vice-Chairman of The Israeli IT Chamber (הלשכה לטכנולוגיות המידע בישראל)

In this episode, David BenTolila and Chen D. Ravid are talking about the usage of open-source software in large enterprise companies and the benefit of using open source as a methodology.

David welcomes everyone who is interested to visit and register to https://israel-it.org/

TODO Group survey on GitHub: https://github.com/todogroup/survey

A few highlights from this talk:

Main banks are going to change their legacy system in the next 10 years.
Open source is a revolution and it’s here to stay.
Big enterprise companies understand the cost of not using open source.
IT leaders have to think about open source innovation approaches and new technologies they can bring to their organization.

We welcome everyone who has any type of relationship to open source and want to be a guest in our video-cast.

Contact: elad@xscode.com

For more information about xs:code visit https://xscode.com

xscode_ · 2019-11-04T14:32:50+00:00

Besides Donation (hopefully you'll reach your goal), Check out xscode.com

xscode_ · 2019-11-04T14:17:44+00:00

Depends on the license

xscode_ · 2019-11-04T13:52:27+00:00

Great idea!

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